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{{short description|Soviet cyclist}}
{{use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
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|image=Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0508-045, Wassili Shdanow.jpg
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|caption=Vasily Zhdanov in 1987
|birth_date= {{birth date and age|1963|1|12|df=y}}
|birth_place= [[Korochansky District|Zalomnoye]], [[Belgorod Oblast]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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| height = {{convert|1.81|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|77|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport=Cycling
|club=Soviet Army
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| show-medals    = yes
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|[[1985 UCI Road World Championships|1985 Giavera del Montello]]|Team time trial}}
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'''Vasily Ivanovich Zhdanov''' ({{langx|ru|Василий Иванович Жданов}}; born 12 January 1963) is a retired Soviet road cyclist. He was part of the Soviet team that won the 100&nbsp;km team time trial at the 1985 World Championships. He competed in the same event at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] and finished in seventh place.<ref name=r2/> The same year he won the [[Milk Race]].<ref name=r1/>
Zhdanov was born in Russia, but in 1987 graduated from the University of Physical Education in Kiyv ([[Kharkiv]] branch), Ukraine, and since the 1980s took various sport and business related positions in Kharkiv and Kiyv. Between 1994 and 1996 he was the head coach of the Ukrainian road racing team, then until 2005 he was a personal assistant of [[Oleg Blokhin]] in Ukraine's parliament matters. Between 2005 and 2010 he was responsible for sport and tourism in the city administration of Kharkiv.<ref name=r3/> Since 2011 he is an assistant manager of the Italian racing team [[Lampre-Merida]].<ref name=r4/>
==References==
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<ref name=r1>[http://www.radsportseiten.net/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=28919 Vassili Jdanov]. radsportseiten.net</ref>
<ref name=r2>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074230/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/zh/vasyl-zhdanov-1.html Vasyl Zhdanov]. sports-reference.com</ref>
<ref name=r3>[http://www.sq.com.ua/rus/files/102/ Жданов Василий Иванович]. sq.com.ua</ref>
<ref name=r4>[http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2010-08-23/14_4/ УКРАИНА ПРОРВАЛАСЬ В ЭЛИТУ С ПОМОЩЬЮ ИТАЛИИ]. sport-express.ru (23 August 2010)</ref>
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[[Category:1963 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Korochansky District]]
[[Category:Soviet male cyclists]]
[[Category:Russian male cyclists]]
[[Category:Olympic cyclists for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:UCI Road World Champions (elite men)]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Belgorod Oblast]]
[[Category:20th-century Russian sportsmen]]
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